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Stratechery
Metaverses~11 min read · Aug 3rd · The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia
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Finally, as the virtual and physical worlds converge the metaverse made up of digital twins, simulated environments, and mixed reality, is emerging as a first-class platform. With the metaverse the entire world becomes your app canvas. With Azure Digital Twins you can model any asset or place with Azure IoT and keep the digital twin live and up-to-date. Synapse tracks the history of digital twins and finds insights to predict future states, and with Azure you can build autonomous systems that continually learn and improve. Power Platform enables domain experts to expand on and interact with digital twin data using low-code/no-code solutions. And Mesh and Hololens brings real-time collaboration.
Satya Nadella, for the record, was first: on May 25, 2021, during the keynote for Microsoft’s Build developer conference, he characterized a collection of Azure offerings as a metaverse:  Finally, as the virtual and physical worlds converge the metaverse made up of digital twins, simulated environments, and mixed reality, is emerging as a first-class platform. With the metaverse the entire world becomes your app canvas. With Azure Digital Twins you can model any asset or place with Azure IoT and keep the digital twin live and up-to-date. Synapse tracks the history of digital twins and finds insights to predict future states, and with Azure you can build autonomous systems that continually learn and improve. Power Platform enables domain experts to expand on and interact with digital twin data using low-code/no-code solutions. And Mesh and Hololens brings real-time collaboration.  The term “enterprise metaverse” came a month later at the Microsoft Inspire sales force keynote, but it was only on last week’s earnings call that most of the press caught on. As usual, no one cares unless Facebook is involved.
Visual Capitalist
The Biggest Business Risks in 2021~14 min read · Jun 16th · We live in an increasingly volatile world, where change is the only constant. Businesses, too, face rapidly changing environments and associated risks that they need to adapt to—or risk falling…
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While the index performance for health care and utilities was also relatively poor, the wider energy sector performed fairly well
Technology had the highest market capitalization and was also the most common sector, with Big Tech dominating the top 10
VentureBeat
How PepsiCo uses AI to create products consumers don’t know they want5 min read · Jun 28th · Leaders at PepsiCo detail how they use data, AI, and machine learning for every part of the product journey, from innovation to marketing.
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By collecting data from all these different sources — which represent what people are voluntarily talking about, searching for, and ordering in their daily lives — Gans says his team “can get a really good idea as to what people are more and more interested in.
“People will give you all sorts of answers,” Gans said. “It’s just not very close to what is ultimately driving their buying behavior.”
It starts with using AI to collect intel on potential flavors and product categories, allowing the R&D team to glean the types of insights consumers don’t report in focus groups. It ends with using AI to analyze how those data-driven decisions played out.
Packy McC◎rmick
Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce20+ min read · May 17th · The Quiet Chinese Quindecacorn Taking Over America’s Gen Z Shoppers
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Shein (pronounced She In) is the fastest-growing ecommerce company in the world. It reportedly did almost $10 billion in revenue in 2020, and has grown over 100% for each of the past eight years.
Selling fast-fashion through an app allows Shein to lean into its advantages to compete on three vectors it’s uniquely suited to win:  Price: “affordability”  Selection: “choice”   Retention: “addictiveness”
Harvard Business
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success7 min read · Apr 20th · Will that big idea create value? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how even the most innovative companies adhere to one basic principle.
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"One of the key messages in the book is that strategy is not complicated. There are only three levers: value for customers, value for employees, and value for suppliers."
every segment of the economy, the very best companies lead their peers by wide margins
The most successful firms are very strict: Unless an idea creates value for customers, employees, or suppliers, they do not touch it. It might be fun to do. It might be interesting to explore, but it's not going to create the kind of value that ultimately gets translated into financial success.
The New York Times
Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age9 min read · From 2017 · Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s chief executive, has reshaped nearly every aspect of the business. He explains the playbook behind the company’s success.
The Atlantic
Sears's History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing20+ min read · From 2017 · One hundred years ago, a retail giant that shipped millions of products by mail moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever. Is that happening again?
business
empreendedorismo
Business Insider
Someone figured out why the KFC Twitter account follows just 11 people — it's a brilliant marketing ploy5 min read · From 2017 · The Twitter account of global fast food giant KFC has more than 1.2 million followers, but only follows five English women and six men in return.
The Wall Street Journal
The Great Retail Bifurcation3 min read · 2020-05-20 · Many assume that traditional retailers’ woes—evident in store closings and bankruptcies in recent years—are attributable to the growth of e-commerce. However, Deloitte research indicates the…
Quartz
Amazon built one of the world's most efficient warehouses by embracing chaos6 min read · From 2018 · Amazon organizes the inventory in its warehouses using one simple rule: wherever there's space.
FORTUNE
Kraft Heinz Disaster Shows That Brutal Cost-Cutting Won’t Save Packaged FoodsApr 28th · Investment firm 3G has slashed spending to raise profits at Kraft Heinz. But the approach, called zero-based budgeting, has failed.
Harvard Business Review
Are You Doing the SWOT Analysis Backwards?5 min read · Feb 23rd · Don’t worry about strengths and weaknesses until you’ve identified opportunities and threats.
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startups
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Stratechery
The Relentless Jeff Bezos~11 min read · Feb 3rd · Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO’s in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.
amazon
leadership
business
Harvard Business Review
The Commercial Space Age Is Here8 min read · Feb 12th · Private space travel is just the beginning.
space
World Economic Forum
Consumer mindsets are local despite spread of globalization4 min read · Jan 25th · New research proposes taking a localized approach to consumer tastes and attitudes in order for companies to thrive commercially in different countries.
business
local
Harvard Business
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups4 min read · Jan 14th · A/B tests help startup founders capitalize on good ideas—and move on from duds—faster, says research from Rembrand Koning. How can established companies benefit?
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